Who Is Watching You Each Day?

A man is driving to work when he notices the flash of a traffic camera.

He figures that his picture had been taken for exceeding the limit, even though he knows that he wasn’t speeding.

• Just to be sure, he circles the block and passes the exact same spot, driving even slower this time through. Again, the camera flashes.

• He thinks it is hilarious, since he was obviously doing nothing wrong, so he drives even slower as he passes through the light for a third time.

• The traffic camera takes his photo again. He does it a fourth and fifth time and is hysterical each time when the camera flash snaps his picture.

• The final time he passes through the light he is going 20 miles under the speed limit.

Two weeks later, he gets five tickets in the mail for operating a car without a safety belt.

In this sermon I want to show you we are being watched every day of our life.

We need to be aware of this.

If you are like me when I am driving and I see a patrolman I automatically check my speed meter and hit my brakes because I know Iam being watched.

Because we are being watched every day this is such an important sermon I have asked the Lord to help me clearly preach this sermon.

Illus: Two police officers saw an old woman staggering down the street. They stopped to see if she was okay, when they realized she had far too much to drink.

Instead of taking her to jail, they decided to just drive her home.

They knew which neighborhood she lived but they did not know what street or house she lived.

They put her in the back seat of the cruiser. One of the officers decided to ride beside her to be sure she was safe.

• As they drove the streets they kept asking her where she lived. All she would say as she stroked the officer’s arm is you’re passionate.

• They drove a while longer and asked her again, but the same response, as she stroked his arm again saying “You’re passionate.”

Both officers were a little upset, so they stopped the car and said to the woman, “look, we’ve driving you up and down this street in this neighborhood for an hour and you still haven’t told us which house you live.”

During this long drive to take her home she was a little more sober now and she could talk clearer and she replied, “I keep telling you, you’re passin’ it!”

Like I said I have asked the Lord to help me to make this sermon CLEAR because it is so IMPORTANT!

I preach a lot on this subject but the reason I feel led to preach on it often is because OF THE NEED TO PREACH ON CHRISTIAN GROWTH.

Every Christian should have a desire to GROW SPIRITUALLY.

God gives us Christians a built in instinct when we are converted that we want to grow.

Illus: Sometimes children entertain themselves by playing games.

One game they like to play is to pretend they are adults.

• For example, a little girl will put on her mother's dress and pretend she is a mother.

• The little boy will wear his dad's shoes and pretend he is a dad.

The reason they do this is because there is a built in instinct in children; from the day they are born they want to grow up and become adults.

When you think about the spiritual life, you have to think about growth, and that shouldn’t surprise us because when you think about life in any form, life is equal to growth.

Growth is evidence of life.

• You plant a seed in the ground and it grows to a full-sized plant. That’s the nature of that plant to grow.

• You have a small puppy in your house and it grows to be a big dog.

• You have a baby in your house and it grows to be an adult.

• Where there’s life, there’s growth.

• Where there’s growth, there’s life.

Peter addressed that spiritual desire that every born-again Christian possesses.

Look at 1 Peter 2:2, he says, "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby."

• Peter had a lot to say about Christian growth.

• Paul had a lot to say about Christian growth.

• James had a lot to say about Christian growth.

In fact almost the entire book of James deals with CHRISTIAN GROWTH.

I am going to take for granted that you recognize none of us have fully grown to our full potential but as Christians we should have a desire to grow.